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Many women are unaware of the problems that excessive alcohol intake might cause for the developing baby, and few are aware that alcohol can reduce their fertility. Alcohol can upset the production of eggs from the ovary. A Danish study conducted in 1998 found that women drinking four or fewer units of alcohol a week were twice as likely to conceive than those drinking ten or more units a week. If your partner drinks heavily, this can affect his fertility, too, by upsetting the function of his testicles and their production of both the male hormone testosterone and sperm. However, moderate alcohol intake (up to three or four units a day) does not seem to cause male fertility problems.

The ideal is that you both give up alcohol while you are trying to conceive, or keep your alcohol intake very moderate as no one really knows what is the ‘safe’ level of alcohol. Remember, too, that if you are trying to get pregnant, you may not know that you have conceived until several weeks after